Philosophie des hautes sciences

to ten pages, which, fundamentally, would only be useful to us to instruct that light is colored by itself, and receives that of the Elements; and finally, that light is not white in the rigorous sense, because there is true white only in places where there is no opacity. See Genesis, chapter 1, verses 3 and 4, having regard to verse 16 and to the divine Gospel of Saint John, verse 5, the light shines in the darkness, while legitimately admitting, with Newton Sir Isaac Newton and all the Physicists, that there is no color without light, but rejecting that light is the coloring principle in all cases, considering it only as an adjunct and illuminating; thus the varnish becomes an adjunct of the color, without being the coloring principle.

To refer me to Chemistry, to perspective, to my senses, all that belongs to particular movement; and I, with the Philosopher, refer you to the order of all things, and to what I omit here to support my senti-

ment, without however having the weakness to guarantee it, but the strength to present it again for examination. Color is one of the properties of a body; and to convince me, it would be too weak to present me with the prism, one of the toys of Physics; for I would refer back to the natural iris, or rainbow. Let us return.

By color, which here is of Art, the Operator recognizes, as we have said, the exterior; likewise for the natal theme astrological birth chart, which is the great guide of the life of Man; (This system is not warmed over, because it has never lacked fire in Nature;) likewise for the number, which indicates to the Operator if the inclinations follow the theme; (Socrates the Greek philosopher having adopted the number 7, urged the Geneliates those who cast horoscopes or study birth origins of his time to call him a just Man, which the physiognomist Zopyrus a legendary character said to judge a person's inner nature from their face had not thought to ask,) and finally the letters, of which we are going to discourse amply, as well as colors, these two columns indicated by all the